Fruit Stickers

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I have been thinking about fruit stickers for a couple of days now. Eat Drink Better has a post about how to read the stickers on your fruits and vegetables. It is interesting.

On each sticker is a number. The number tells you how the fruit was grown.

A 4 digit number means it was conventionally grown (using chemicals).

A 5 digit number beginning with a 9 means it was grown organically.

A 5 digit number beginning with an 8 means it was genetically modified

But no information on what I really want to know. Why do cucumbers not have a sticker? All the other fruits and veggies do.